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Vicente Emilio Sojo
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Browse piano sheets by Vicente Emilio Sojo on Zen Virtual Piano. Vicente Emilio Sojo was born to a musical family, and both of his great-grandfathers were chapel masters. In 1896 he began music studies under the teachers Régulo Rico and Henrique León. Composing continued alongside teaching: appointed music professor in the School of Music and Declamation in 1921, he kept writing works for different instrumental and vocal combinations. Two chapel masters among the great-grandparents may hint at a family where church music already had a place, and the studies that began in 1896 fit that picture. Together with José Antonio Calcaño and Miguel Ángel Calcaño, he takes part in the artistic movement known as Renovación. In the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, which he founded, he was more than its founding conductor; he was a resolute, constant driving force, and by 1930 he was also conductor of the Orfeón Lamas. For the Orfeón Lamas he gathered and harmonized over 200 popular and national folk songs, which amounted to a significant rescue of Venezuelan musical tradition from recent centuries. An orchestra founded and a choir led by the same person might show a musician working on more than one front at once. The first promotion of composers to graduate under Sojo at the José Ángel Lamas school of music came in 1944, four years after he and other composers prepared the first song book for Venezuelan children. His most important works include the Chromatic Mass (1922–1933) and Hodie Super Nos Fulgebit Lux (1935). Politics took up part of his life too: he helped found the Acción Democrática party in 1941, became senator for Miranda state when elected in 1958, and was re-elected in 1963. A teacher whose first graduates finished in 1944 and who also sat in the senate leaves a picture of someone who worked inside institutions as well as at the desk. In 1951 he received the Premio Nacional de Música de Venezuela in recognition of his whole body of work. He died in Caracas on August 11, 1974, and his remains rest in a crypt beneath the parish church of Guatire. A prize for a body of work and a resting place beneath a church sit together as a modest close to a long account.
Browse piano sheets by Vicente Emilio Sojo on Zen Virtual Piano.
Vicente Emilio Sojo was born to a musical family, and both of his great-grandfathers were chapel masters. In 1896 he began music studies under the teachers Régulo Rico and Henrique León. Composing continued alongside teaching: appointed music professor in the School of Music and Declamation in 1921, he kept writing works for different instrumental and vocal combinations. Two chapel masters among the great-grandparents may hint at a family where church music already had a place, and the studies that began in 1896 fit that picture.
Together with José Antonio Calcaño and Miguel Ángel Calcaño, he takes part in the artistic movement known as Renovación. In the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, which he founded, he was more than its founding conductor; he was a resolute, constant driving force, and by 1930 he was also conductor of the Orfeón Lamas. For the Orfeón Lamas he gathered and harmonized over 200 popular and national folk songs, which amounted to a significant rescue of Venezuelan musical tradition from recent centuries. An orchestra founded and a choir led by the same person might show a musician working on more than one front at once.
The first promotion of composers to graduate under Sojo at the José Ángel Lamas school of music came in 1944, four years after he and other composers prepared the first song book for Venezuelan children. His most important works include the Chromatic Mass (1922–1933) and Hodie Super Nos Fulgebit Lux (1935). Politics took up part of his life too: he helped found the Acción Democrática party in 1941, became senator for Miranda state when elected in 1958, and was re-elected in 1963. A teacher whose first graduates finished in 1944 and who also sat in the senate leaves a picture of someone who worked inside institutions as well as at the desk.
In 1951 he received the Premio Nacional de Música de Venezuela in recognition of his whole body of work. He died in Caracas on August 11, 1974, and his remains rest in a crypt beneath the parish church of Guatire. A prize for a body of work and a resting place beneath a church sit together as a modest close to a long account.
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Vicente Emilio Sojo was a composer and conductor who founded the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, led the Orfeón Lamas and taught composers at the José Ángel Lamas school of music.
His most important works include the Chromatic Mass (1922–1933) and Hodie Super Nos Fulgebit Lux (1935).
For the Orfeón Lamas he compiled and harmonized more than 200 songs of popular and national folklore.
In 1951 he received the Premio Nacional de Música de Venezuela in recognition of his whole body of work.